New Orleans Saints Weaknesses Exposed

The New Orleans Saints have definitely come abeen to focus primarily on containing Brees and
long way over the past couple of years, but withputting as much pressure on him as they possibly
problems and losses mounted it is becomingcan.
increasingly obvious that they also have a longThe one way that the Saints would be able to
way to go. The weaknesses in the teamscounteract the strategy that the defenses have
offense were hard to see over the majority offormulated against their offense would be to
the season but it seems as if they have finallystrengthen their running game. If Reggie Bush
been uncovered, especially after the loss to thecould get some extra yards on the ground and
2-12 Tampa Bay Buccaneers last week.convince the Defenses that he is a seriou threat
One would have expected the Saints to makethen they would be forced to try to defend the
easy work of the Buccaneers considering thepass and the run game.
season that the Buccaneers have been havingKnowing what the New Orleans Saints weakness
thus far. But from the looks of it the Tampa Bayis is only half of the battle though. The hardest
Buccaneers simply went about playing them thepart is using this knowledge against them,
exact same way that they had seen thesomething that their last two competitors have
Cowboys do the previous week.both done successfully. We will get a chance to
The Saints obvious weakness is that they weresee in the coming weeks if the Saints can make
relying to much on one strategy. That being thethe proper adjustments to their game so they
accuracy of Drew Brees when it comes tocan advance in the post season. Hopefully they
throwing the deep ball. The strategy that bothwill. It would be a shame to see such a great
teams that have beaten them have taken hasseason go to waste.